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Hey, Jill!!
Thanks so much for the additional info. Very helpful!!! Well, WAY BACK WHEN many of you may remember that I was going for a bone scan of my back. Well, they found nothing, as I expected. My back thing has become a mystery. Doctors know nothing. They can find nothing. SO....I went on the internet and found a book that spoke of a condition called TMS. Tension Myositis Syndrome. Basically it is pain that IS real, but is being generated by the brain rather than the body. Basically, the book takes the mind-body approach by saying that anger and repressed emotions can cause a chronic state of tension somewhere in the body. Supposedly, Fibromyalgia is a classic condition that is really TMS in disguise. Tendonitis can also be explained away with TMS. I read the books and determined that I was very likely to have this condition, as it matched my personality type.
It was just a different approach. Figured if no one could find a pathological reason for my pain, MAYBE it was all in my head. So basically I started to act like it wasn't there when it was, kept telling my brain to stop. You know, like mind over matter. Then I got a raise at my job and started doing a different type of work at my same job, than i had been before. This work is more interesting to me and I have found that since I have been a little happier with my job, my pain has substantially decreased.It is true though that I can get out of my chair more often now, which might also be helping.
But THANK YOU everyone for your concern, had it not been for Jill I would have forgotten all about this thread!!! I am determined to "fix" myself, since i have no pathological reason for my pain. Even in the TMS book, it talks about how pain can come from a real event, but that once it becomes chronic it is entirely a different beast. Which many times is TMS. The mind is a powerful thing. I am determined to think myself better. Since I have been having trouble sleeping lately and have been mildly deppressed I am also considering seeing a psychotherapist, just for a little while. I will deal with the mind for now, and see if it really does help. Anyone interested in the books I purchased.....
"Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection" by John E. Sarno, MD.
and
"The Mind-Body Prescription- Healing the body, healing the pain" by John E. Sarno MD.
I really didn't have any other explanation for my pain other than my sit down job. I am young and very healthy, so this is the approach I took. If any of you out there has pain that you don't know why it is there or if it has become chronic, I suggest you look into TMS. you can do a search on the net and it will tell you some stuff. It helped me....THANK YOU ALL!!!!
Thanks so much for the additional info. Very helpful!!! Well, WAY BACK WHEN many of you may remember that I was going for a bone scan of my back. Well, they found nothing, as I expected. My back thing has become a mystery. Doctors know nothing. They can find nothing. SO....I went on the internet and found a book that spoke of a condition called TMS. Tension Myositis Syndrome. Basically it is pain that IS real, but is being generated by the brain rather than the body. Basically, the book takes the mind-body approach by saying that anger and repressed emotions can cause a chronic state of tension somewhere in the body. Supposedly, Fibromyalgia is a classic condition that is really TMS in disguise. Tendonitis can also be explained away with TMS. I read the books and determined that I was very likely to have this condition, as it matched my personality type.
It was just a different approach. Figured if no one could find a pathological reason for my pain, MAYBE it was all in my head. So basically I started to act like it wasn't there when it was, kept telling my brain to stop. You know, like mind over matter. Then I got a raise at my job and started doing a different type of work at my same job, than i had been before. This work is more interesting to me and I have found that since I have been a little happier with my job, my pain has substantially decreased.It is true though that I can get out of my chair more often now, which might also be helping.
But THANK YOU everyone for your concern, had it not been for Jill I would have forgotten all about this thread!!! I am determined to "fix" myself, since i have no pathological reason for my pain. Even in the TMS book, it talks about how pain can come from a real event, but that once it becomes chronic it is entirely a different beast. Which many times is TMS. The mind is a powerful thing. I am determined to think myself better. Since I have been having trouble sleeping lately and have been mildly deppressed I am also considering seeing a psychotherapist, just for a little while. I will deal with the mind for now, and see if it really does help. Anyone interested in the books I purchased.....
"Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection" by John E. Sarno, MD.
and
"The Mind-Body Prescription- Healing the body, healing the pain" by John E. Sarno MD.
I really didn't have any other explanation for my pain other than my sit down job. I am young and very healthy, so this is the approach I took. If any of you out there has pain that you don't know why it is there or if it has become chronic, I suggest you look into TMS. you can do a search on the net and it will tell you some stuff. It helped me....THANK YOU ALL!!!!